Command that allows arguments to be passed from stdin?

[rexroni]

Why is there no way to specify the argument of any function from input?

For example, F1 always turns the front face 1, but there's no way to specify F(whatever-is-in-7).

You could add a dereference character, we'll say X, where FX7 is interpreted as F(whatever-is-in-7). That would be more difficult, but more versatile.

I propose that you just add a new character that reads an argument from stdin, say: '#', so F# would read a 0-9 from stdin.

In fact I wrote a patch for this too, and I will submit the pull request shortly.

[TehPers]

Pull request: #11

[aaronryank]

Here are some ways we've come up with that could do this (without messing with Cubically's existing syntax):

• R𝟐 (or R𝟚, or R𝟤, etc) would rotate the right face x times, where x is the value of face 2
• R with a diacritic mark over it would act like R, except each argument passed to it would be a face index (rotate the right face x times, where x is the value of the face index) instead of a number of times to rotate the right face

[TehPers]

Is there anyway to rotate layer x?

[aaronryank]

Ok, so:

• The double-struck numbers, 0x90 to 0x99, when passed as arguments, mean 'take the argument from the face value of the index I represent'.
• The superscript numbers, 0x00 to 0x09, when passed as arguments, mean 'take the layer depth from the face value of the index I represent'.
• The subscript numbers, 0x10 to 0x19, are what superscript numbers used to do; they simply specify the depth of face turns.

[aaronryank]

@rexroni I added your original suggestion for # as 𝕀 in one the most recent commits.